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by BoorishBears 1213 days ago
It's hilarious watching Tesla owners and Elon complain about the wording when it's Tesla's fault this is a recall.

If Tesla had willingly walked this back, it'd be a software update, or a beta delay, or whatever they wanted to call it.

What laypeople don't realize is that this is being called a recall because the NHTSA pushed them into it: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCLRPT-23V085-3451.PDF

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FSD has been a cartoonish display for the better part of a year now, it wasn't until last month that the NHTSA actually pushed on them to do a recall, and from there they "disagreed with the NHTSA but submitted a recall"... which is code for "submitted the recall NHTSA forced on them to submit"

Elon knows better, but he knows he can weaponize people's lack of familiarity with this space and inspire outrage at the "big bad overreaching government"